Gough's Cave
Attraction · Bristol
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Gough's Cave has been dissolving out of Cheddar Gorge's limestone for half a million years. Retired sea captain Richard Cox Gough excavated and opened it as a show cave between 1892 and 1898. Drainage work here in 1903 uncovered Cheddar Man, Britain's oldest near-complete human skeleton at around 10,000 years old; 2018 DNA analysis found he had dark skin and blue eyes.
From Wikipedia
Gough's Cave ( GOF) is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km (2.12 mi) long, and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in Britain. Archaeologically, the cave is known for a late Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian occupation around 14,700 years ago, evidenced by remains showing cannibalism, the production of skull cups, and the domestication of dogs, as well as for the considerably younger Mesolithic skeleton of Cheddar Man, dating to around 10,300 years ago.